Synopses & Reviews
Cost control and cost planning are an integral part of quantity surveying and construction management courses.
This new book on building design uses programmed learning to demonstrate the ideas of cost control and cost planning, from first principles through practice. Worked examples are used throughout the concise and easily accessible text.
Synopsis
This essential reference uses problem-based learning to demonstrate the concepts of cost control and cost management in construction, from basic principles into practice. Concise and easily accessible, it will be equally useful to students and as a refresher to surveyors and managers.
Synopsis
This new textbook uses programmed learning to demonstrate the ideas of cost control and cost planning from first principles and takes them forward into practice. Worked examples are used throughout
Synopsis
The purpose of this book is to develop the ideas of cost control from first principles and to take them forward into practice. The first part deals with the principles of cost control, and the second part with the techniques.
Table of Contents
The importance of control over expenditure; The purpose of cost control; The principles of cost control; Traditional costing procedure; Cost control during inception, feasibility, outline proposals; Cost control during scheme design; During detail design; Test